Biography

09/18/1904 - 03/01/1977

Stanley Gordon Stroup (R36) Bedford, Fulton, Somerset Counties 1959-1966 (R36) Philadelphia (Part) County 1967-1968 (R30) Blair (Part), Bedford, Somerset Counties 1969-1972 (R30) Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon, Mifflin (Part), Somerset (Part) Counties 1973-1974

Early Life:

Stanley Gordon Stroup, born September 18, 1904, Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania; son of Samuel D. and Naoma Blanche Walker Stroup; Altoona High School, 1921; Juniata College, 1925; graduate student, education, Pennsylvania State College (now Pennsylvania State University), 1928; University of Pittsburgh, 1938; graduated, Dickinson School of Law (now Penn State Dickinson Law), LL. B., 1947; War Services Director, United States Army and Navy Radio Training Stations, 1941-1946; teacher and athletic coach, Bedford and Warren High Schools; rewrite staff, Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia; principal, Sewickley Public Schools; president, Keystone Army and Navy School; attorney, United States Department of Justice, 1947-1954; partner, Livengood, Braucher and Stroup; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1955-1959; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate (Special Election, November 5, 1960-1974); elected, Senate Majority Leader, 1965-1970; elected, Senate Minority Whip, 1971-1974; appointed, chair, Local Government Commission, 1963-1964; appointed, Commission on Interstate Cooperation, 1965-1966; appointed, Joint State Government Commission 1965-1974; appointed, Legislative Budget and Finance Committee, 1965-1974; appointed, Special Committee to Study the Public Employee Relations Act (of 1970), 1973; delegate, Pennsylvania’s Constitutional Convention, 1968; married, LaRue “Larry” Kathleen Robinson Stroup, daughter, son, Gordon E.; died, March 1, 1977, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland; interment, Schellsburg Cemetery, Schellsburg, Bedford County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Attorney, practiced before, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, United States District Court, courts of Bedford County, Interstate Commerce Commission.

Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:

President, Bedford bar, 1951-1961; involved, fundraising Red Cross; organizer, board of trustees, chairman, medical affairs committee Bedford’s Memorial Hospital.

President, Rotary Club, 1951-1952; general chair, Fort Bedford Bicentennial, 1968; founder, Bedford Development Council; member, Bedford Elks Lodge, Harrisburg Consistory, Royal Arch, Jaffa Temple, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Saint John’s United Church of Christ.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1955-1959; not a candidate for reelection, 1960.

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, Special Election, 36^th district, Bedford, Fulton, Somerset Counties, 1959- 1966; Philadelphia (Part) County, 1967-1968; Senate Majority Leader, 1965-1966; acting, President pro tempore, Pennsylvania Senate, 1966-1967; Senate Majority Leader, 1967-1968; appointed, chair, Local Government Commission, 1963-1964; appointed, Commission on Interstate Cooperation, 1965-1966; appointed, Joint State Government Commission 1965-1968; appointed, Legislative Budget and Finance Committee, 1965-1968.

Delegate, Pennsylvania’s Constitutional Convention, 1968.

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 30th district, Blair (Part), Bedford, Somerset Counties, 1969-1972; Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon, Mifflin (Part), Somerset (Part) Counties 1973-1974; Senate Majority Leader, 1969-1970; Senate Minority Whip, 1971-1974; appointed, Joint State Government Commission 1969-1974; appointed, Legislative Budget and Finance Committee, 1969-1974; appointed, Special Committee to Study the Public Employee Relations Act (of 1970), 1973.  

Pennsylvania House of Representatives Biography:

https://archives.house.state.pa.us/people/member-biography?ID=1560

Legacy:

Received, commendation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, training over 20,000 soldiers in radio communications during World War II, as War Services Director, United States Army and Navy Radio Training Stations, 1941-1946.

Juniata College, class president, editor, yearbook, student newspaper.   

Cited:

1965-1966 Pennsylvania Manual, page 126.

Journal, Pennsylvania Constitution, 1967-1968, page 70.

Bedford Gazette, (Bedford, Pennsylvania) Wednesday, March 2, 1977.

The Daily News (Huntingdon, Pennsylvania) Wednesday, March 02, 1977

Bedford Gazette, (Bedford, Pennsylvania) Thursday March 3, 1977.